Robert Rice was an American

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and

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coach. He was the fourth head football coach at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College—commonly known then as Maryville now known as

Northwest Missouri State University Northwest Missouri State University is a public university in Maryville, Missouri. It has an enrollment of about 8,505 students. Founded in 1905 as a teachers college, its campus is based on the design for Forest Park at the 1904 St. Louis Worl ...

—in

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, serving for twos seasons, from 1919 to 1920, and compiling a record of 0–7. Rice was also the head basketball coach at Northwest Missouri State from 1919 to 1921.

Head coaching record

Football

References

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